Editing devices are used to create the effect of the band members "walking through" one another and teleporting on and off the stage, an effect similar to one used in the Red Hot Chili Peppers video " Around the World". The members are performing the song on stage, surrounded by approximately 1,500 fans. The music video was the band's first collaboration with the acclaimed director Marcos Siega, and is set in the parking lot of the Oak Tree Inn motel in Los Angeles, hometown of the band. Most pressings of the album include an intro to the track where lead singer Serj Tankian can faintly be heard saying "we're rolling 'Suicide '" while drummer John Dolmayan is counting the band in. According to Odadjian, the song title is a wordplay: "Suey" is "suicide", "chopped" in half. The song was originally titled either "Suicide" (according to Odadjian) or "Self-Righteous Suicide" (according to Rubin), but the name was changed in response to real or anticipated pushback from Columbia Records.
Although it was not revealed what book the lines were taken from, they are quoted from the sayings of Jesus on the cross ( Luke 23:46 and Mark 15:34). ) were randomly picked out by Serj Tankian from Rick Rubin's book collection after Tankian was struggling for ideas. Hence the line, 'I cry when angels deserve to die.'" The lyrics for the midsection ("Father into your hands I commend my spirit". Like, if I were now to die from drug abuse, they might say I deserved it because I abused dangerous drugs. In an interview, Daron Malakian explained, "The song is about how we are regarded differently depending on how we pass. "Chop Suey!" is often considered the band's signature song. The single earned the band its first Grammy nomination in 2002 for Best Metal Performance.
It was released on August 13, 2001, as the first single from their second album, Toxicity (2001). " Chop Suey!" is a song by American heavy metal band System of a Down.
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